1 00:00:05,55 --> 00:00:08,05 The wrong you are. 2 00:00:22,59 --> 00:00:22,89 Wrong. 3 00:00:34,82 --> 00:00:38,85 Hello I'm Brian boring and welcome to part eight of the distinguished lecture 4 00:00:38,86 --> 00:00:42,80 series entitled listening to the prairie this segment features distinguished 5 00:00:42,81 --> 00:00:48,59 lecturer Ed bags Mr Bags hold it agree in animal science from Texas A and M. And N. 6 00:00:48,60 --> 00:00:49,06 And S. 7 00:00:49,07 --> 00:00:53,93 An agricultural education from Tarleton State is the Collin County stage an agent 8 00:00:53,94 --> 00:00:58,45 for agriculture so let's join Mr Bags as he lectures on listening to the prairie 9 00:00:58,50 --> 00:01:03,22 over the roar of urbanization as it says apparently with the Texas corps of 10 00:01:03,23 --> 00:01:07,04 extension service agricultural agent and I do have some natural resources 11 00:01:07,18 --> 00:01:08,17 responsibilities as 12 00:01:08,18 --> 00:01:12,31 a force as concerned also and I am your county extension agent for Collin County 13 00:01:12,66 --> 00:01:16,73 the co-op Extension Service used to be the agricultural East service I remember 14 00:01:16,74 --> 00:01:20,98 that we've been there since nine hundred fourteen and also last year they still 15 00:01:20,99 --> 00:01:25,97 don't change at night. You know go figure I guess that's what they do in college 16 00:01:25,98 --> 00:01:31,27 station so they pass that baton we need to change the night it is I think it was to 17 00:01:31,28 --> 00:01:36,06 get the mindset of our clientele more that we are just more than agricultural I 18 00:01:36,07 --> 00:01:40,17 think to put some of the past mindset from old time with styles cows and plows we 19 00:01:40,18 --> 00:01:45,31 are that term see but now we are getting into more of the natural resource and 20 00:01:45,35 --> 00:01:49,52 urban top programming and those are major issues because that's where most of our 21 00:01:49,53 --> 00:01:54,08 population lives in the state now is in the urban and suburban areas and so that's 22 00:01:54,09 --> 00:01:58,52 we have to we have to change as our client tale changes and so we do move in that 23 00:01:58,53 --> 00:02:01,42 direction in the night Callie does better and work 24 00:02:01,43 --> 00:02:05,67 a little bit better to me in the in the identity of the exchanges force that 25 00:02:05,68 --> 00:02:12,59 clientele is concerned. Our mission of course is to prod the 26 00:02:13,08 --> 00:02:16,54 average teenager cation program service to the people of Texas all of our 27 00:02:16,55 --> 00:02:20,68 educational programs are research based I can't give you my opinion I can tell you 28 00:02:20,69 --> 00:02:24,45 my jokes but I can't give you my personal opinion on certain items it has to be 29 00:02:24,46 --> 00:02:29,54 research based information so that's what we do try to provide you. There you know 30 00:02:29,55 --> 00:02:33,37 I am your agent for calling Candy that is my particular responsibility I do have 31 00:02:33,38 --> 00:02:39,10 state and. National responsibilities but the money part of my work deals directly 32 00:02:39,11 --> 00:02:44,64 here Collin County are taken for granted they are buddies from Collin County so in 33 00:02:44,65 --> 00:02:48,41 every county in fifty four counties state of Texas they all have at least one 34 00:02:48,42 --> 00:02:50,30 extension across the state so we have 35 00:02:50,31 --> 00:02:55,66 a wide variety of very good networking system and we also have access to our 36 00:02:55,67 --> 00:03:00,18 research stations all across the state and college station that their main 37 00:03:00,19 --> 00:03:04,91 responsibility is to support county programs they do some research at the research 38 00:03:04,92 --> 00:03:09,63 stations we also do some research locally here within the county to see how 39 00:03:09,67 --> 00:03:13,22 a certain way that we plan for new G.M.O. 40 00:03:13,23 --> 00:03:19,60 Technology or planning method anything along those lines how it works under under 41 00:03:19,61 --> 00:03:23,79 this certain environment we can do it at the research stations but they they can 42 00:03:23,80 --> 00:03:24,27 duplicate 43 00:03:24,28 --> 00:03:28,06 a lot of things that they can't duplicate everything exactly like it's going to 44 00:03:28,07 --> 00:03:32,47 happen here in Collin County so this we do some of that research there also 45 00:03:33,04 --> 00:03:39,18 a little bit about you know we're going to see you can't say oh yeah we're to get 46 00:03:39,19 --> 00:03:39,42 it as 47 00:03:39,43 --> 00:03:46,43 a. Governor at state grass of Texas so. A little bit about coming 48 00:03:46,44 --> 00:03:51,04 to you for kick this thing off too I know we're getting very organized here we're 49 00:03:51,05 --> 00:03:51,91 about three hundred 50 00:03:52,00 --> 00:03:56,80 a little bit over three hundred fifty five hundred thirty four thousand acres in 51 00:03:56,81 --> 00:04:01,20 Collin County we still have three hundred sixty five three hundred sixty nine 52 00:04:01,21 --> 00:04:05,27 thousand those that are still filed for an agricultural exemption that the column 53 00:04:05,28 --> 00:04:09,59 can and district price will office and that's on record so that tells us that gives 54 00:04:09,60 --> 00:04:14,91 us about sixty five percent of the land area in Collin County is still in some top 55 00:04:14,92 --> 00:04:17,20 agricultural we own 56 00:04:17,21 --> 00:04:23,12 a annual basis average annual basis the last three years we have we use we plan 57 00:04:23,13 --> 00:04:29,83 around harvest forty nine thousand acres we need about thirty five thousand 58 00:04:29,84 --> 00:04:36,82 acres of corn and about of that team thousand acres of sorghum and Milo Now 59 00:04:36,83 --> 00:04:41,94 think about sixty four thousand this is what we use for the last sixty sixty three 60 00:04:41,95 --> 00:04:46,49 thousand to use for forty production in the last stop production last year produce 61 00:04:46,50 --> 00:04:52,28 twenty million dollars in cash receipts produced twenty million dollars last in the 62 00:04:52,37 --> 00:04:56,22 last top production out of that total landmass was one hundred eighty thousand 63 00:04:56,23 --> 00:04:57,51 acres so you see it's 64 00:04:57,52 --> 00:05:02,85 a very diverse and yet all those up those large crops take large areas and large 65 00:05:02,86 --> 00:05:07,07 farmers so that cause as we do that research and kind of think through that process 66 00:05:07,08 --> 00:05:07,90 that tells us that we have 67 00:05:07,91 --> 00:05:11,47 a lot of smaller landowners out there and that's the dream that's going to cross 68 00:05:11,48 --> 00:05:15,46 the host and that'll come my little bit later in this program and so those and 69 00:05:15,47 --> 00:05:19,02 takes is a is all you'll probably are aware of is that is 70 00:05:19,03 --> 00:05:22,93 a privately owned stuff most of the land area in the state is owned by private 71 00:05:22,94 --> 00:05:26,75 landowners so really you have control over your own destiny if the natural 72 00:05:26,76 --> 00:05:30,61 resources are out there and is privately owned land you want to have the control of 73 00:05:30,62 --> 00:05:35,54 it whether stays or goes or gets changed or put himself in the else. With that 74 00:05:35,58 --> 00:05:41,11 moving to the prairie so. This is what the center say when they came across their 75 00:05:41,12 --> 00:05:45,02 vast sea the grasses dug with springs and crossed or streams and rivers this is not 76 00:05:45,03 --> 00:05:51,13 a early sever by the way. But what do the native grass grasses provide for so 77 00:05:51,14 --> 00:05:58,11 aggressively if they are good but if they are as close with that is hard 78 00:05:58,12 --> 00:06:03,68 to tell from those pictures to I call it loose and they will if you go OK. 79 00:06:05,33 --> 00:06:11,14 Well go in the middle of grass that's flat. It's one of these grasses provide force 80 00:06:12,10 --> 00:06:12,23 in 81 00:06:12,24 --> 00:06:15,95 a way yummy when you live in urban ruled suburban It doesn't matter nice crack these 82 00:06:15,96 --> 00:06:18,42 gracious for us can provide anything from 83 00:06:18,43 --> 00:06:21,81 a clean and safe drinking water system to 84 00:06:21,82 --> 00:06:26,42 a site on the grill because it produces tremendous amount of forage also the best 85 00:06:26,43 --> 00:06:30,64 filtration system we have for the waterways our streams our rivers our tanks and 86 00:06:30,65 --> 00:06:34,56 ponds from those overflow when we get the rains we get sediment Washington from the 87 00:06:34,57 --> 00:06:40,08 fields or even from the cities for that goes to some point in time if it has an 88 00:06:40,09 --> 00:06:44,28 opportunity to run through these tall grass Curry's then it is an excellent 89 00:06:44,29 --> 00:06:49,34 filtration system for filtering those sediments going into the the water system not 90 00:06:49,35 --> 00:06:53,24 only the groundwater system but the underground reservoirs it feel trace those to 91 00:06:53,28 --> 00:06:55,30 these these native grasses have 92 00:06:55,31 --> 00:07:01,04 a tremendous root songs the root zone is its to flow to and follow what 93 00:07:01,05 --> 00:07:03,86 a. Stablish piously would be or 94 00:07:03,87 --> 00:07:07,100 a stablished or actually introduce cress whatever title you want to put on it so 95 00:07:08,01 --> 00:07:11,76 that they act and in that method also they can feel trapped very deep they also 96 00:07:11,77 --> 00:07:16,19 open up the soul to create organic matter organic action going on that soloing 97 00:07:16,23 --> 00:07:18,53 incorporate nutrients back into so they serve 98 00:07:18,54 --> 00:07:23,03 a wide variety of per purpose and there are very important to all of us. 99 00:07:25,74 --> 00:07:30,34 Grazing lands single largest land use in the state hundred twenty million acres of 100 00:07:30,35 --> 00:07:37,11 seventy percent of the state still is in grazing lands ninety four million acres in 101 00:07:37,12 --> 00:07:42,20 range land and seventeen million pasture land and grass forces forces are one 102 00:07:42,21 --> 00:07:45,08 million acres so it still nets like what is still 103 00:07:45,09 --> 00:07:51,77 a large area like Langridge that's where we live. So we have one hundred twelve 104 00:07:51,79 --> 00:07:56,71 point six million acres in the black black flame price includes Collin Dallas and 105 00:07:56,72 --> 00:08:01,01 hunt in Ellis' in there to those part of the largest counties that are in black 106 00:08:01,02 --> 00:08:05,05 land curries and we're kind of set right in the heart of it in the widest part of 107 00:08:05,10 --> 00:08:09,78 the black lampreys So it's mainly smooth the black clay is 108 00:08:09,78 --> 00:08:14,98 a predominant sole top through this area very very the grasses are very well 109 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:19,55 adapted certain type of grasses are very well adapted the native ones to this area 110 00:08:19,85 --> 00:08:23,16 I think is a. Grom 111 00:08:23,17 --> 00:08:27,48 a little blue simply blue stamp is what that was passed native grasses to black for 112 00:08:27,82 --> 00:08:32,69 black lampreys little big in the inside Old style and perennial forks that's what 113 00:08:32,70 --> 00:08:38,20 that was long ago but it's changed what caused all its change I mean it would just 114 00:08:38,22 --> 00:08:41,58 build in the cities and you know people that have places to live we all understand 115 00:08:41,59 --> 00:08:46,52 that we have to work with it live with it in this make sure buddy and stand what 116 00:08:46,54 --> 00:08:50,34 we're doing today that we do need to preserve at some point pass the bill but what 117 00:08:50,36 --> 00:08:55,23 might all this change in the feed them what agriculture had a plot had 118 00:08:55,24 --> 00:09:01,01 a role and exactly. I mean even before the even before agriculture cotton came here 119 00:09:01,02 --> 00:09:02,34 you know cotton can use to be that 120 00:09:02,38 --> 00:09:06,81 a new capital the state. Yeah I'll remember there you know when you're overweight 121 00:09:07,09 --> 00:09:10,80 you should grow more news here I mean other news love this place it was them 122 00:09:10,81 --> 00:09:17,26 believable how can we don't grow and use anymore. Give the labor I can make more 123 00:09:17,27 --> 00:09:21,90 labor building houses you know you can pay somebody ten twelve dollars an hour to 124 00:09:21,91 --> 00:09:22,15 work in 125 00:09:22,16 --> 00:09:27,47 a new field but back then when we were moreover already in top society that was 126 00:09:27,48 --> 00:09:28,25 a that that was 127 00:09:28,26 --> 00:09:31,96 a common thing to work in and we had plenty of them out there and then cotton came 128 00:09:31,97 --> 00:09:32,69 in cotton was 129 00:09:32,70 --> 00:09:37,36 a king when I first came to Collin County over four years ago we were forming 130 00:09:37,37 --> 00:09:42,99 a buyout right at four thousand acres of cotton this year we'll be looking in 131 00:09:43,00 --> 00:09:46,81 twelve hundred we lost two genes in the process in that time and this because of 132 00:09:47,07 --> 00:09:51,91 the the chemical event I mean this can't be all switching over to dry land corn 133 00:09:51,92 --> 00:09:55,96 dryland corn was introduced Collin County ten years ago and it was introduced by 134 00:09:55,97 --> 00:09:57,41 the extension service which is 135 00:09:57,42 --> 00:10:00,51 a known experiment from an agent that was here before me probably biggest 136 00:10:00,52 --> 00:10:04,83 contribution here were made to the agricultural industry in this county which to 137 00:10:04,84 --> 00:10:08,22 get that done it was done through one of these demonstration plots that I was 138 00:10:08,23 --> 00:10:13,16 explaining to you about earlier farmer Celestron is our course not going to be 139 00:10:13,17 --> 00:10:17,66 awareness let's just try to put in demonstration shop do some research and see if 140 00:10:17,67 --> 00:10:23,08 it works to get ran with it the biggest profitable crop in this county DR ALAN 141 00:10:23,09 --> 00:10:27,03 KOHLER Well average one hundred fifty bushels an egg or own corn don't have to have 142 00:10:27,04 --> 00:10:29,95 a dryer let it dry on the stock bring it in I'll have 143 00:10:29,96 --> 00:10:34,72 a field for things more so so where I don't have any experience with the big dryers 144 00:10:35,01 --> 00:10:35,23 we have 145 00:10:35,24 --> 00:10:41,91 a good market whatsoever and prosper over Prosser biggest ag industry across the 146 00:10:41,92 --> 00:10:48,50 proper number of big biology can form. So you can local or 147 00:10:49,25 --> 00:10:53,74 you it. But so that was a ready market for the going to 148 00:10:54,06 --> 00:10:57,95 a lot of these cotton farmers have the switchgear sold off or their cotton 149 00:10:57,96 --> 00:11:03,38 equipment and moved over in switched over to corn they have to diversify some of 150 00:11:03,39 --> 00:11:09,38 the other ones that are just home grown in farm cotton for generations those about 151 00:11:09,39 --> 00:11:13,12 all the ones we've got left in the county but they're really struggling with hardly 152 00:11:13,49 --> 00:11:17,74 a drop in their good folks and we've got to support my work in that chase another 153 00:11:17,75 --> 00:11:21,77 rabbit back to Candy so this is what it wasn't but I wanted answer the question 154 00:11:21,78 --> 00:11:23,18 what may change agriculture 155 00:11:23,19 --> 00:11:27,65 a good answer that is that is one phase of it but as far as national farmers you 156 00:11:27,66 --> 00:11:33,53 know back then we would invite her as came in the juniper is the oaks and homes we 157 00:11:33,54 --> 00:11:38,37 have natural fire by Latin or smokey the buyers who enter the fire got started to 158 00:11:38,38 --> 00:11:42,62 get started with what anybody here to put it out and so it just barn and that kept 159 00:11:42,63 --> 00:11:48,07 the invaders in check and kept by our native grasses predominant and then once we 160 00:11:48,08 --> 00:11:51,36 came in we had a fire took some fire was bad so we had 161 00:11:51,37 --> 00:11:54,78 a fire we put it out and really that's in that was a big That was 162 00:11:54,79 --> 00:12:01,20 a big impact on the prairie lands and in the grasses. Present there again just what 163 00:12:01,21 --> 00:12:06,42 we visited with just our earlier mosquito cam Juniper who say and these are 164 00:12:06,43 --> 00:12:09,77 predominate grasses now that we have in our native grass prices higher ground in 165 00:12:09,78 --> 00:12:13,40 Texas winter buffalo grass there is still some stands out there are blue stems I 166 00:12:13,41 --> 00:12:18,98 had sat on the ground we have seen much of that in the county don't say very well 167 00:12:18,99 --> 00:12:23,71 at all so you know this this what happens the fire the agricultural and also our 168 00:12:23,72 --> 00:12:26,21 stock you know you can lump that in the average cost of 169 00:12:26,22 --> 00:12:32,91 a leg said Dr Glass stock is the is. Hinders the native grass 170 00:12:32,93 --> 00:12:34,44 production very much if you don't have 171 00:12:34,44 --> 00:12:39,02 a good grazing management point and it will hinder the growth of the native grasses 172 00:12:39,11 --> 00:12:45,88 dramatically. Impact the range land economic sectors state of 173 00:12:46,67 --> 00:12:53,48 stability. In the stay using the range land or outdoor recreational 174 00:12:53,49 --> 00:12:59,91 activity which is is is is tied to the grasslands brings in 175 00:12:59,92 --> 00:13:04,66 approximately and I'm not don't quote me on this brings in approximately seventy 176 00:13:04,67 --> 00:13:09,54 million a year just for outdoor activities so it is an economic impact we talked 177 00:13:09,55 --> 00:13:13,01 a little bit about our water quality and quantity it does act as 178 00:13:13,02 --> 00:13:17,98 a best filtration system we've got there most economical to use force filtering the 179 00:13:17,99 --> 00:13:19,33 settlements that their water is going to be 180 00:13:19,34 --> 00:13:23,23 a big issue in the state I think everybody is or is aware that going to be 181 00:13:23,45 --> 00:13:27,61 a tremendous issue when you're a farmer rancher land owner not 182 00:13:27,62 --> 00:13:32,01 a land owner living apartment it doesn't matter somehow it's going to trickle down 183 00:13:32,02 --> 00:13:35,01 effect it's going to affect you because if you work for corporations they're not 184 00:13:35,02 --> 00:13:38,37 going to be able to expand because they're not going to be there's not going to be 185 00:13:38,80 --> 00:13:42,87 enough water to support a growth in population or industry that is going to be 186 00:13:42,88 --> 00:13:47,01 a very limited resource in the in the very near future and it's going to limit it 187 00:13:47,10 --> 00:13:49,22 so if your can somebody that for 188 00:13:49,23 --> 00:13:54,79 a grocery chain and they depend on expansion to keep you working in the people 189 00:13:54,80 --> 00:13:59,50 aren't moving in then you're stuck you're kind of there so it's going to be a it's 190 00:13:59,51 --> 00:14:05,28 a very limiting factor watery as and so these these range lands can help us improve 191 00:14:05,29 --> 00:14:09,71 the quantity and quality of the water of course while our population I think that's 192 00:14:09,72 --> 00:14:15,60 a given it's home to very many vertebrae in birds deer and such and that's also an 193 00:14:15,61 --> 00:14:22,52 economic impact force recreation is concerned. Recreation we still have 194 00:14:22,53 --> 00:14:29,08 social needs oversight that's kind of the ties in also with the. Recreation 195 00:14:29,09 --> 00:14:32,84 in we like to have been a five states this is B. 196 00:14:32,85 --> 00:14:38,26 And native Texans and the important nature takes is kind of got that image about 197 00:14:38,27 --> 00:14:42,52 him so you know that relates to this when you think about Texas as kind of what you 198 00:14:42,97 --> 00:14:48,14 what what comes to mind water quality and supply we already visited produce erosion 199 00:14:48,15 --> 00:14:52,60 reduce pollution and capture runoff and sediment there's 200 00:14:52,61 --> 00:14:57,00 a very good job at that and these pastures and waterways and in around times we've 201 00:14:57,01 --> 00:15:01,91 done some test will we have done that factor in the process of doing one right now 202 00:15:01,92 --> 00:15:05,88 I was over there for came over here seeing how we're coming along and I'll touch 203 00:15:05,89 --> 00:15:12,09 base on it with later planning grasses around the stock tanks these these native 204 00:15:12,10 --> 00:15:16,50 grasses and doing the comparison of not planting them and versus plant them and 205 00:15:16,51 --> 00:15:18,75 then do some test down if it's 206 00:15:18,76 --> 00:15:25,50 a very basically sought after rainfall and you can see the difference. Future 207 00:15:25,51 --> 00:15:30,13 Texas where we are an urban society but we all want to rule our style certainly 208 00:15:30,14 --> 00:15:34,49 nothing wrong with that nothing wrong with it at all. Folks move to Collin County 209 00:15:34,50 --> 00:15:40,06 and come out and buy. You know ten fifteen twenty acres maybe in five acres and 210 00:15:40,07 --> 00:15:42,79 that's OK in the work in Dallas certainly nothing wrong with that but they want 211 00:15:42,80 --> 00:15:46,61 that real law style and if there's some native grasses out there and they want to 212 00:15:46,62 --> 00:15:50,32 stablish some type of grass you know we can encourage them to do that and show them 213 00:15:50,33 --> 00:15:55,79 the benefits and help them get that done the proper planning methods. To farms and 214 00:15:55,80 --> 00:15:59,90 ranches relation five hundred acres that's across the state that's 215 00:15:59,91 --> 00:16:04,66 a growing tree and that's not going that's not going to go another way so that 216 00:16:05,20 --> 00:16:09,79 that's another reason black claim preys are now less than one percent in tall 217 00:16:09,80 --> 00:16:16,54 grasses the smaller acreage is tea into. That's the population chart 218 00:16:16,76 --> 00:16:22,32 when you doing the smaller acreage is it seem like the smaller it is the more 219 00:16:22,33 --> 00:16:27,38 livestock they want to run on it I mean it's hard to if when they see the grasses 220 00:16:27,39 --> 00:16:32,79 after is this tall the and then they triple the stocking right that they're really 221 00:16:32,80 --> 00:16:38,27 supposed to on those grasses and then they get them graze down in that. Deters the 222 00:16:38,28 --> 00:16:42,35 root growth and now our plants pretty much done coming now we're going to go into 223 00:16:42,92 --> 00:16:48,61 reverse on our plants and so it's hard to without doing some age acacia and in some 224 00:16:48,93 --> 00:16:53,11 visiting with them and in some some data collecting it's hard to get that across 225 00:16:53,12 --> 00:16:56,14 from but it is very detrimental You can see where we've gone from one thousand nine 226 00:16:56,15 --> 00:17:02,15 hundred to the year two thousand and four so this is across state cross as far as 227 00:17:02,16 --> 00:17:07,66 our Britain rule is concerned very big increase and so they have what happens is 228 00:17:07,67 --> 00:17:13,85 the larger farmers. The cotton farmers or any farmers force that concern it's it's 229 00:17:13,86 --> 00:17:15,09 very difficult to make 230 00:17:15,10 --> 00:17:19,48 a living in the agricultural field I mean one hundred percent living and keep 231 00:17:19,49 --> 00:17:23,85 groceries on the table keep shoes on the kids for the especially the new form will 232 00:17:23,86 --> 00:17:29,31 come out if you're so to print in the home environment in the market in you're not 233 00:17:29,32 --> 00:17:33,16 getting the subsidies that you are that the side of the people are overseas and so 234 00:17:33,17 --> 00:17:38,30 you can be competitive in the marketplace when they get subsidized and we're not so 235 00:17:38,34 --> 00:17:38,59 if you're 236 00:17:38,60 --> 00:17:42,75 a bargain to buy the cheapest grain you can if it's the same qualities so they can 237 00:17:42,76 --> 00:17:44,11 produce it a lot cheaper so 238 00:17:44,12 --> 00:17:47,43 a little lot cheaper over there do those subsidies so that's that's another deal 239 00:17:47,44 --> 00:17:49,85 with the farm bill in relation to they asked 240 00:17:49,86 --> 00:17:51,71 a lot eighteen I said well I got to be 241 00:17:51,72 --> 00:17:55,85 a lot eighteen to it so what happens is he's already farmers have 242 00:17:55,86 --> 00:18:00,68 a large tracts of land and they found it more profitable economical for them to 243 00:18:00,69 --> 00:18:06,25 sell it off in smaller trucks in the USA have to go for survival so they smell so 244 00:18:06,26 --> 00:18:11,46 often smaller tracks for whatever reason and this is kind of an example of one and 245 00:18:11,47 --> 00:18:17,91 then it goes in to this. Then you can see it as you present fighting in the still 246 00:18:17,92 --> 00:18:22,26 some grasses out there and still that's OK You know the farmers there again he has 247 00:18:22,27 --> 00:18:22,54 to make 248 00:18:22,55 --> 00:18:25,61 a living if you can't make it off the land then you're going to have to do something 249 00:18:26,06 --> 00:18:29,19 so you seem to lots of it turns into this but this is also kind of 250 00:18:29,20 --> 00:18:31,87 a good example to show you can have a I don't know was 251 00:18:31,88 --> 00:18:38,01 a house that looks like your house Tom was it cost. Very expensive asthmatic in the 252 00:18:38,02 --> 00:18:42,92 agent's half I think that's. So but you can so you can have 253 00:18:42,93 --> 00:18:44,77 a mass home like I do my driveway 254 00:18:44,78 --> 00:18:48,08 a little different I don't know but you can so you can have 255 00:18:48,09 --> 00:18:52,78 a very nice house out there when. The holder is that 256 00:18:52,79 --> 00:18:57,76 a mass lock that lank this group probably does like that landscape if the bottom 257 00:18:57,77 --> 00:19:00,82 a bit and you know I don't need a lot more after i don't have 258 00:19:00,83 --> 00:19:04,100 a water on it fertilize it you know the grasshoppers coming in well you know how 259 00:19:05,01 --> 00:19:10,89 much I can do better so you know that to me I lacked that as this has. Admittedly 260 00:19:10,90 --> 00:19:12,51 I'd leave it like that might be my driveway 261 00:19:12,52 --> 00:19:17,83 a little bit some Alaska my kids maybe could roller skate or some affection over in 262 00:19:17,84 --> 00:19:22,35 areas where he talked about the watersheds watersheds during from north west to 263 00:19:22,36 --> 00:19:27,22 south to Southwest in the basins here the rain the true the rivers the more 264 00:19:27,23 --> 00:19:30,61 grasslands we can feel for that water through before you stand us better off we're 265 00:19:30,62 --> 00:19:31,94 going to bleed when it gets down to like 266 00:19:31,95 --> 00:19:37,59 a lot like Lavon has is being tested last year and also this year do. 267 00:19:38,97 --> 00:19:44,86 We're not in an unsafe zone but we could be getting close if we're not careful so I 268 00:19:45,15 --> 00:19:51,07 think this could be in important aspect of that as far as. Anybody up stream from 269 00:19:51,08 --> 00:19:56,83 us using the stack grasses naturally to help us alleviate that problem at freezing 270 00:19:56,84 --> 00:20:02,16 does not break down in the water very readily and it doesn't bond to the soul so 271 00:20:02,17 --> 00:20:05,51 therefore it is cotton runoff and sediment and apparently didn't run through the 272 00:20:05,52 --> 00:20:11,34 grasses either. Because the grasses could help us with that. Very widely used 273 00:20:11,35 --> 00:20:15,40 product in the agricultural industry and also in some of the tar press in the 274 00:20:15,41 --> 00:20:19,86 streets to you know we can't blame this all on the producers folks I mean yes there 275 00:20:19,87 --> 00:20:24,01 are users of it but they're not going to be their users with the not abuse or 276 00:20:24,02 --> 00:20:27,09 something because the money's coming out of their pockets they're barely making it 277 00:20:27,10 --> 00:20:31,62 anyway so they're not going to put even more herbicides out there that they need 278 00:20:31,79 --> 00:20:36,61 that just to do the job they're very conservative on and also time an application 279 00:20:36,88 --> 00:20:43,31 in their very well restricted also in control but proper grazing management 280 00:20:43,68 --> 00:20:48,94 we just livid about that produces more grass. Talk about 281 00:20:48,95 --> 00:20:53,12 a little examples of animal units we try to educate people on what animal units are 282 00:20:53,13 --> 00:20:54,80 that's kind of how we forgive them when we do 283 00:20:54,81 --> 00:21:00,62 a stocking right is. This how much they don't monthly in a yearly basis so say 284 00:21:00,63 --> 00:21:03,71 a horse is pretty good job either twelve hundred pounds on 285 00:21:03,72 --> 00:21:08,15 a yearly basis and that's that's the sum average one point two five animal units so 286 00:21:08,58 --> 00:21:13,70 if you've got to get two actors out there five horses what's going to happen and 287 00:21:13,71 --> 00:21:17,64 you've pretty much done you know you my live real good right now what about year to 288 00:21:17,65 --> 00:21:21,30 year max and that is under ideal conditions this is going to look like another 289 00:21:21,31 --> 00:21:26,38 picture coming out and I'm going to get horses own horses I love orses but they 290 00:21:26,40 --> 00:21:29,85 need to be mange we've got to remember the grass managers are really not last stop 291 00:21:29,86 --> 00:21:35,49 for the service this is how growth the grazing affects growth that there's some I 292 00:21:35,50 --> 00:21:39,58 didn't learn in this some they did teach me but best of all foamy isn't anybody can 293 00:21:39,59 --> 00:21:44,34 remember this is tight half leave half. If you will take half and leave half of it 294 00:21:44,34 --> 00:21:49,09 bare and that'll really still sustain that root system so that plant can provide 295 00:21:49,11 --> 00:21:54,87 will grow regrow itself to come back to work needs to be to to produce C. 296 00:21:55,14 --> 00:21:58,98 And re germinate but if you start getting blow that have stage you're really 297 00:21:58,99 --> 00:22:02,28 starting to handle that root production now we've got to refine going in reverse 298 00:22:02,62 --> 00:22:07,90 and it's going to be really tough for the native grasses of course respond to that 299 00:22:07,92 --> 00:22:12,12 very heavily I mean in grazing what's the risk when grazing 300 00:22:12,14 --> 00:22:18,88 a moment is still cutting it off aren't you still gone the only big difference is 301 00:22:18,89 --> 00:22:24,92 that you might get some recycling out of the out of the last stock you know but you 302 00:22:24,93 --> 00:22:30,27 know. It's amazing you drive and I've done it in Callan can drive down the cannery 303 00:22:30,28 --> 00:22:36,33 else what can the east coast do drive them can't really drive I like them that. We 304 00:22:36,34 --> 00:22:39,87 judge them the county road and say gal don't rush out and get some little Lucy I'm 305 00:22:39,88 --> 00:22:42,76 up here about waist and he's on that brush I want to use a hack and 306 00:22:42,77 --> 00:22:49,56 a light pullover saw you have. No Nobel clue that you know put some last stop on 307 00:22:49,57 --> 00:22:53,30 their suffering the least ration Moeller up to eighteen inches if you're going to 308 00:22:53,31 --> 00:22:58,15 cut it off like so it has the same effect this long we take that top that top rope 309 00:22:58,16 --> 00:22:59,34 welfare of the next going to effect 310 00:22:59,35 --> 00:23:06,12 a bottom row for that that's going to affect it coming back. Past the rotation this 311 00:23:06,13 --> 00:23:09,86 was hidden if you rotate it off are properly tight halfway you have it's going to 312 00:23:09,87 --> 00:23:12,37 come back and read your mind I can do still going to maintain 313 00:23:12,38 --> 00:23:16,61 a good stand you're going to get all those benefits to go along with it that's what 314 00:23:16,62 --> 00:23:22,95 I have and if you don't raise. The going to come back in my comeback was going to 315 00:23:22,96 --> 00:23:27,02 lean Juniper's and pretty pardon or something else it's not going to come back 316 00:23:27,03 --> 00:23:33,76 native grasses I think is pretty much done and that's kind of what happens. Everest 317 00:23:33,77 --> 00:23:38,06 MacSpeech And what we're doing here day public awareness is some kind tailed and 318 00:23:38,07 --> 00:23:43,81 educational programs conducting research and such collaboration with other agencies 319 00:23:43,82 --> 00:23:48,23 like they were in our midst and with their leader today do some things together in 320 00:23:49,20 --> 00:23:53,56 you know we really encourage that and we can do better job to get to them we can 321 00:23:53,57 --> 00:23:58,44 separately and we have to give you an unbiased approach we have to just mandate in 322 00:23:58,45 --> 00:24:04,75 our ethics. And I came to you my personal opinion or anybody else's I have that tab 323 00:24:04,76 --> 00:24:08,41 approach some of the things that we're all working on in our urban areas for as 324 00:24:08,42 --> 00:24:13,57 a native grasses in conserving natural resources I told you I was in a chicken on 325 00:24:13,58 --> 00:24:18,94 a research plot we're going over chase Oaks golf course it's right down the road I 326 00:24:18,95 --> 00:24:23,64 went over there for I came here today checking on the we might see more of this 327 00:24:23,65 --> 00:24:26,20 type of aspect in kind of what's going on the been 328 00:24:26,21 --> 00:24:32,53 a face from it not only for the public of Collin County but also them as 329 00:24:32,54 --> 00:24:38,98 a golf course managers and owners around their ponds. Thirty six hole golf course 330 00:24:38,99 --> 00:24:42,72 they've got eighteen of shut them redoing the whole thing so we're encouraging them 331 00:24:42,73 --> 00:24:47,11 they're going to go forward with it if our demonstration shows successful and has 332 00:24:47,12 --> 00:24:51,51 a lot of challenges to so successful this year than the build might get over 333 00:24:51,52 --> 00:24:54,26 a broad base over the whole golf course he's 334 00:24:54,27 --> 00:24:58,48 a native grasses around their ponds and along that creek bottom right now they're 335 00:24:58,49 --> 00:25:01,15 in their improved pasture they're all the meat of grasses course they've got 336 00:25:01,16 --> 00:25:06,52 a moat fertiliser herbicide to keep it looking nice for the golfers. We encourage 337 00:25:06,53 --> 00:25:10,20 them children benefits of the native grasses for filtration flood control and 338 00:25:10,21 --> 00:25:12,80 you've got to use different types you know Eastern grammar down in the bottom 339 00:25:12,81 --> 00:25:18,37 little blue stem upon the top in Bagram and in their different places and the big 340 00:25:18,38 --> 00:25:22,75 challenge is to get that established and still keep the erosion intact because 341 00:25:22,76 --> 00:25:28,33 their own very slow be areas going into those times. And we think we can work 342 00:25:28,34 --> 00:25:29,79 through that they've agreed to 343 00:25:30,23 --> 00:25:35,23 a course they have to furnish the experience which is far safer teas and consulting 344 00:25:35,23 --> 00:25:41,78 . And so we'll work through that. And it'll move forward and I think it'll be very 345 00:25:41,79 --> 00:25:46,32 successful and it's not the first golf course in the county that up of consulted 346 00:25:46,33 --> 00:25:49,83 own native grasses the new one going on prosper by 347 00:25:49,84 --> 00:25:58,05 a golfer. When 348 00:25:58,06 --> 00:26:03,24 I feel my. Consulting I'll never be 349 00:26:03,25 --> 00:26:06,85 a wyvern golf course put in that will prosper all of the worry of I don't think 350 00:26:06,86 --> 00:26:08,30 it's open yet started on 351 00:26:08,31 --> 00:26:12,39 a year before last and they came in and said hey we want to we want to bring this 352 00:26:12,40 --> 00:26:17,69 back is much negative is we can get down fertilizer because stand on the herbicide 353 00:26:17,70 --> 00:26:23,86 cost cuts down their labor from owing very little mites to it so. Unfortunately 354 00:26:23,87 --> 00:26:27,40 they called me after that already plowed up the whole everything and got it all 355 00:26:27,41 --> 00:26:31,51 laid out but that's OK You know these of contract companies to go around architect 356 00:26:31,52 --> 00:26:35,09 companies that build these golf courses and they finish this when they move on to 357 00:26:35,10 --> 00:26:39,66 another one so they're not local and they don't know exactly what grasses are 358 00:26:39,67 --> 00:26:41,61 native to this to call in can 359 00:26:41,62 --> 00:26:47,92 a black claim and which one are going to work best in what situation was sold so I 360 00:26:47,93 --> 00:26:53,63 go out there and consult them and help them help them do that and in very glad to I 361 00:26:53,64 --> 00:26:53,96 think it's 362 00:26:53,97 --> 00:26:59,09 a great step forward and I just found snowball. In some of the other ones are 363 00:26:59,10 --> 00:27:04,86 really picking up on it the beach would open for timber on a lot of 364 00:27:04,87 --> 00:27:06,59 a lot of nice beautiful I mean 365 00:27:06,60 --> 00:27:10,83 a lot of native grasses out there and it's just beautiful so if and that's going to 366 00:27:10,84 --> 00:27:10,94 be 367 00:27:10,95 --> 00:27:15,88 a way the future when our water we talk about our water resources is going to be one 368 00:27:15,89 --> 00:27:21,91 of our. One of our resources that are not only available to us limiting resource 369 00:27:22,61 --> 00:27:27,69 was the first one we're going to go. Somebody's home use it and hopefully would 370 00:27:27,73 --> 00:27:33,27 still get it or probably recreation probably limited monitoring reparation water 371 00:27:33,35 --> 00:27:34,55 coming I don't know that for 372 00:27:34,56 --> 00:27:38,82 a fact but I think in the start from the bottom and work up in this which one is 373 00:27:38,83 --> 00:27:44,00 the most mandated which one is going to maintain last quality and he's probably 374 00:27:44,01 --> 00:27:45,52 going to start reparations off like 375 00:27:45,53 --> 00:27:49,68 a lot of these golf courses are kind of picking that up based in Texas and saying 376 00:27:49,69 --> 00:27:54,24 you know we are going to have to cut back somehow working we do the native grasses 377 00:27:54,25 --> 00:27:58,57 fits in there perfect I mean just perfect and so we're excited about going forward 378 00:27:58,58 --> 00:28:02,03 that new water line going through the Can anybody got that going through their 379 00:28:02,25 --> 00:28:06,11 backyard and what you're seeing is right. 380 00:28:11,28 --> 00:28:17,56 When it runs all across Canada I mean just line straight across right over the. 381 00:28:19,49 --> 00:28:25,45 Huge And we it's pretty big Tom Tom there is 382 00:28:25,45 --> 00:28:30,06 a big pot always crossed one of the one of the deals is with people that put in 383 00:28:30,06 --> 00:28:34,87 that plan that when the contract states that whatever ground that they tear up 384 00:28:34,88 --> 00:28:36,30 through there they're going this will 385 00:28:36,31 --> 00:28:42,12 a spec quite extension is is doing to promote these native grasses. It has your 386 00:28:42,13 --> 00:28:46,05 back they do the best they can to put that back in the same vegetation it was 387 00:28:46,06 --> 00:28:49,42 before they dug that hole but these guys they're going to contractors you know 388 00:28:49,44 --> 00:28:53,78 they're popular that they're not agronomists or not or core choice in there sure or 389 00:28:53,78 --> 00:28:58,02 not they don't know. On that back alley don't know what grazing they can about 390 00:28:58,03 --> 00:29:01,64 there when you put that pop in the ground so they called me and said Would you help 391 00:29:01,64 --> 00:29:05,28 us some of these grasses and help us establish some back like they warned us to be 392 00:29:05,30 --> 00:29:09,06 more happy to so us do something else we do work there to try to get these things 393 00:29:09,08 --> 00:29:13,27 back in it's it's great these large corporations are making that effort and have 394 00:29:13,28 --> 00:29:18,17 that concern to do that so we can work our work towards that direction so everybody 395 00:29:18,17 --> 00:29:24,92 benefits from it what can you do well. To get a lot. Yeah you can use 396 00:29:24,93 --> 00:29:28,43 a native grasses and landscape certainly nothing wrong with that I would support 397 00:29:28,44 --> 00:29:32,39 over installations like myself sport those organizations didn't have to be monetary 398 00:29:32,40 --> 00:29:37,89 or. If you have questions with them or have concerns or or might help and volunteer 399 00:29:37,90 --> 00:29:43,09 wise what are the need maybe just support those organizations like they've sold 400 00:29:43,10 --> 00:29:43,52 here there's 401 00:29:43,53 --> 00:29:50,56 a tremendous organization there. Conservation easements is going 402 00:29:50,57 --> 00:29:55,90 to talk about that. There is there are conservation easements if you can use and I 403 00:29:55,91 --> 00:29:59,10 believe that you can also get the exemption for those you get the agricultural 404 00:29:59,11 --> 00:30:03,84 exemption for conservation easement tremendous asset on preserving some of these 405 00:30:03,85 --> 00:30:07,77 areas and they going to go into a lot more detail map and the state planning 406 00:30:08,05 --> 00:30:09,97 a lot of even though you're you might be 407 00:30:09,98 --> 00:30:16,50 a property owner might not but if you do become wonder or maybe know someone that 408 00:30:16,51 --> 00:30:20,45 is through these estate plan and you believe that stuff in writing on how that 409 00:30:20,46 --> 00:30:25,58 property supposed to be used how that has exposed to be preserved. You can put 410 00:30:25,59 --> 00:30:31,48 those in your in your state. Mandated exactly how that that would happen if you had 411 00:30:31,85 --> 00:30:34,23 you know put a hundred acres in for instance 412 00:30:34,24 --> 00:30:38,57 a native grass and you left it to you because and he said of the two McDonnell's 413 00:30:38,58 --> 00:30:42,35 Well let's not going to preserve much but you can put those stipulations on how 414 00:30:42,36 --> 00:30:44,70 that property supposed to be using your estate plan. 415 00:31:02,38 --> 00:31:04,57 Question. There's 416 00:31:04,58 --> 00:31:09,16 a First off when you want to purchase native grasses or plough terrible you want to 417 00:31:09,17 --> 00:31:14,74 do it you want to get to the closest nursery or supplier that it's grown or 418 00:31:14,75 --> 00:31:20,87 harvested to you because that's going on like more babble to your Vironment the one 419 00:31:20,88 --> 00:31:25,85 even Oklahoma I have all that information that there is really only to disclose 420 00:31:25,86 --> 00:31:30,40 when they call home one morning. Those are the two closer sources. 421 00:31:33,00 --> 00:31:39,86 Well I mean yeah closeness to. Our wrist in. Our 422 00:31:39,87 --> 00:31:43,76 Sensei's not a big. Now that there's just not 423 00:31:43,77 --> 00:31:47,98 a huge market out there for it but you have to be careful because some of it's you 424 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:48,57 just bought from 425 00:31:48,58 --> 00:31:51,96 a supplier it could be shipped in most anywhere you don't know where it's origin 426 00:31:51,97 --> 00:31:56,63 yes you need to really be aware of the origin and find out exactly what's coming 427 00:31:56,64 --> 00:31:57,64 from you know if there's 428 00:31:57,65 --> 00:32:13,44 a place closure that's Courtney's you need it's made. It's 429 00:32:13,45 --> 00:32:20,16 great. To get there doesn't get 430 00:32:20,17 --> 00:32:22,73 together afterwards. That she has 431 00:32:22,74 --> 00:32:28,19 a source locally but you probably couldn't get quantities there back to how we want 432 00:32:28,20 --> 00:32:35,03 to do five hundred acres. So landscaping Yes I think they'd be 433 00:32:35,04 --> 00:32:40,46 a great resource for links like skating purposes. We tend to work on 434 00:32:40,47 --> 00:32:44,03 a little bit larger scale and so what we can on the team and also what we get 435 00:32:44,04 --> 00:32:47,38 a lot of those seeds in Already we're getting rabbits again we get 436 00:32:47,39 --> 00:32:53,88 a lot of that mean I gotta quit now. But. We get in situations where we would like 437 00:32:53,89 --> 00:32:57,89 eastern grammar grass we like to getting it in so already so been sitting there for 438 00:32:57,90 --> 00:33:01,54 three or four days in water ready to go so we get it if we're not ready go right 439 00:33:01,55 --> 00:33:04,19 into the ground would put it in the fridge right or bring it out we get 440 00:33:04,20 --> 00:33:08,52 a real fast germination Alpha out of it because when we go to put in the C.B.S. 441 00:33:08,53 --> 00:33:12,46 We get everything ready and we want to go with it quick our window is very small we 442 00:33:12,47 --> 00:33:16,86 get those in still because we want to be as successful as we can specially on 443 00:33:16,87 --> 00:33:21,06 demonstrations so we try to just not a barrage cross every T. 444 00:33:21,07 --> 00:33:25,68 And make sure flames just drop so the timing coming in on the C R C purple ration 445 00:33:25,69 --> 00:33:26,92 in some ways this would only have 446 00:33:26,93 --> 00:33:32,74 a seabed where over seed and then we get to do some other methods to accomplish lad 447 00:33:32,74 --> 00:33:38,41 to hold back the competition. During that seeding process so that you can get many 448 00:33:38,42 --> 00:33:41,87 different ways in sandwich with that that's a great source like 449 00:33:41,88 --> 00:33:48,16 a man. Best of Texas productive range lands wildlife clear strange native plants no 450 00:33:48,17 --> 00:33:52,56 steady you can't get any better now today if I go to heaven that's what it bigger 451 00:33:52,57 --> 00:33:58,70 out there all those things listed. And like I have cattle at there is 452 00:33:58,71 --> 00:34:03,14 a harvesting tool nothing wrong with that as yet grass is no were grazing and you 453 00:34:03,15 --> 00:34:05,11 can tail and maintain that very well get 454 00:34:05,12 --> 00:34:12,03 a good water supply back there for. Wildlife perfect home environment 455 00:34:12,04 --> 00:34:14,53 for also can be no source of income 456 00:34:18,90 --> 00:34:21,76 and here is an example of some of those native grasses planted around 457 00:34:21,77 --> 00:34:27,59 a stop on field trotting out settlements not only sole but in other type of 458 00:34:27,60 --> 00:34:32,49 materials that are would be in runoff going into the pond that these grasses food 459 00:34:32,50 --> 00:34:36,45 would filter those out going as mass. Crystal water 460 00:34:39,58 --> 00:34:44,54 and elderly people stay consolation conservation is keeping the resources in 461 00:34:44,55 --> 00:34:48,19 working order as well as preventing overuse I think that's 462 00:34:49,12 --> 00:34:53,26 a good statement for all of us to keep in mind as we can thank for this I thank you 463 00:34:53,27 --> 00:34:59,17 for being this afternoon here. The BE. The 464 00:34:59,18 --> 00:35:09,56 beginning 465 00:35:09,57 --> 00:35:09,98 of the 466 00:35:09,99 --> 00:35:38,67 book 467 00:35:38,67 --> 00:35:38,67 .